Software as a service (SaaS) has taken over, and the average enterprise now uses hundreds of unique SaaS applications to accelerate their digital transformation and business velocity. However, while SaaS has fulfilled its growth-enabling potential, most organizations have lost their grip on its consumption and use. IT and security teams can no longer depend on network or endpoint controls to govern application access.
With more than a hundred continuous integration and continuous deployment (CI/CD) tools to choose from and hundreds of plugins and services connected to those tools, no wonder security teams have a hard time grasping the amount of information and security requirements of these environments.
The cybersecurity industry is in the midst of a skills crisis. With a cyberattack occurring approximately every 39 seconds, every business needs a well-trained staff to protect it. How can the void be filled? Artificial intelligence (AI). It’s one of the best hopes for the industry and has the potential to ease the pressures of the security skills shortage.
It’s important that businesses understand that DDoS attacks aren’t just a blip on the radar; if not handled properly, they can be devastating to the long-term prospects of a business.
While it’s true that ethics and conduct are matters under the control of humans, financial companies and other entities also have ethical responsibilities, typically enshrined into a corporate code of conduct. When corporate principles aren’t adhered to, and unethical behavior becomes the norm, disaster can ensue.
As technology grows and advances, potential cyber threats grow with it. While this notion is nothing new, the current speed of innovation makes it more important than ever to consider the implications these developments will have on our cybersecurity capabilities — especially with cybercriminals becoming more sophisticated and more adept at using emerging blind spots to their advantage.
Deborah Golden, Deloitte Risk & Financial Advisory’s U.S. Cyber and Strategic Risk leader, shares insights on the most significant barriers to widespread digital identity adoption and the need to face them head-on as we embrace a more digital world.
As COVID-19 ravaged hospitals’ patient care units last year, opportunistic criminals saw an opportunity to pluck low-hanging fruit: Hacking groups decided to breach and ransom healthcare institutions during a time of global crisis.
Security spoke to Joey Johnson, Chief Information Security Officer of Premise Health, a direct healthcare provider, about how healthcare security leaders can keep up with rising cybersecurity threats.
While the Kaseya, SolarWinds and other cyberattacks and global disruptors may appear dissimilar, having wildly varying causes and impacts, there is strategic value in considering them – and the supply chains they spread across – as a collective. Together, they represent a rapid learning opportunity for both adversaries and defenders – an open-source global weapons development program.
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